New York Times (09/08/14) Richard A. Oppel Jr.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must hire tens of thousands of new doctors, nurses, and clinicians to serve its patients but has had trouble recruiting and retaining talent, according to Secretary Robert A. McDonald. The department had nearly 36,000 clinical provider vacancies in July and almost 46,000 vacancies across the entire veterans’ health care system, a 15.5% vacancy rate.